catherineofalx's reviews
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queen of wild naming

I appreciated so much that this book dove into the materialist error of seeing the bread as just a veil for bleeding flesh. Eucharistic miracles are private revelations people. We don’t know what a risen body behaves like and you should be more afraid to make assumptions about it!!! Thanks for your time

the acts of the apostles owns. the commentary gets points for liberation theology but loses points for its bizarre meditation on the.......... simple savages of malta? ? ? ? 

"THESE ARE SNEAK THIEVES. THEY OPERATE BY SNEAKERY"

I love Storygraph because I can just go ahead and tell everybody that this beloved spiritual classic is maudlin "everything happens for a reason" garbage and literally nobody will see it

one of the most remarkable books I have ever read, everything I hoped it would be!!!

The titular sentence, it turns out, is very Catholic, and I'm extremely emotional about it.

There are so many moments when Ciszek starts reflecting on his experience for like, two sentences and then cuts to the next thing. As a result this reads like what it is, a traumatized person's sorta meandering recounting aloud of a really intense life. I'm looking forward to reading He Leadeth Me to get the interior stuff, which is what I'm curious about!

This isn't the kind of thing you sit down and read all the way through. Believe me, I tried. I came back to it over and over and read it out of order and tried my best to pray it instead of just consuming information. It's a brick but WHAT A GOOD BRICK. Come Holy Spirit!!!!

I love how this book teaches you to enter into your imagination to encounter Mary as a real woman, not just some distant saccharine idea of her. I've struggled with Marian devotion forever because of all the baggage and this book just cut right through that so beautifully. Grateful that this exists!